Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Monday, August 27, 2012
The West is turning into china, loosing Freedom
This neatly compiled collection of newscasts puts together the case that something has gone very wrong at the highest levels of our society. The fact that the powerful are so paranoid that they are willing to expend huge amounts of our scarce resources on chinese style surveillance of people who are just expressing ideas shows the degree of separation between the people who make the decisions and the people who have to live under those decisions. Society seems terminally ill. After watching this one I think you will find it undeniable that 1) there is a problem 2) we need real reform.
Out of all the people who hold political power, or at least the facade of political power, there is not one person or persons that are pushing back against the police state agenda. To date, no lone executive has broken ranks with the globalists and issued orders to the political puppets to try and save the day. Is there not one among you, you men of power and privilege, who loves lady liberty more than your false trophys of excess.
I will not shut up. I know fully well the implications of speaking my mind. You can do what you will but I love liberty more than life itself. You do not have my obedience, and that is all it takes for you to lose your power. I am not afraid.
I will not live in fear, and neither will you.
Friday, August 17, 2012
22 Stats That Show How The Emerging One World Economy Is Absolutely Killing American Workers
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com
For decades our politicians have promised us that the "free trade"
agenda would bring us greater prosperity than ever before. They
insisted that merging our economy into the emerging one world economy
would cause millions upon millions of new jobs to be added to the U.S.
economy. Unfortunately, it was all a giant lie. Trading with other
countries is not a bad thing as long as the level of trade is fairly
equal on both sides. When trade becomes very unequal, the consequences
can be absolutely catastrophic. Since 1975, the United States has
bought more than 8 trillion dollars more stuff from the rest of the
world than they have bought from us. We are the only economy on earth
that could have had 8 trillion dollars drained out of it and still be
standing. Instead of leaving the country, those 8 trillion dollars
could have gone to U.S. businesses and U.S. workers. If we could go
back and have a "do over", how much more prosperous would we be today if
we had kept that 8 trillion dollars inside the country?
But instead of pursuing a balanced trade philosophy, our politicians were so enamored with the emerging one world economy that they threw all caution to the wind.
So we have lost tens of thousands of businesses, millions of jobs and trillions of dollars of our national wealth.
And this emerging one world economy is absolutely killing American workers. It lumps them into a global labor pool with workers in other countries where it is legal to pay slave labor wages.
Just think of it this way. Imagine that you are a giant corporation that makes "widgets". You can make them in the United States, but you would have to pay your workers about $10 an hour, provide them with a whole bunch of benefits, pay very high taxes, and comply with a dizzying array of laws, rules and regulations.
Or, you could set up shop on the other side of the world where you could pay your workers a dollar an hour. Those workers would receive no benefits and you would have to deal with very little red tape.
Which would you choose?
The "giant sucking sound" that Ross Perot once warned us about has become a reality. Big employers are competing with one another to see who can outsource jobs the fastest, and American workers are the big losers in all of this.
As I wrote about the other day, right now there are some American workers that are actually personally training their replacements from overseas how to do their jobs.
If nothing is done about this, jobs are going to continue to pour out of high wage countries such as the United States and into low wage countries on the other side of the globe, and big corporations are going to keep laughing all the way to the bank as unemployment in America gets even worse.
The following are 22 stats that show how the emerging one world economy is absolutely killing American workers....
#1 One professor has estimated that cutting the U.S. trade deficit in half would create 5 million more jobs in the United States.
#2 The United States has a trade imbalance that is more than 7 times larger than any other nation on earth has.
#3 Overall, the United States has run a trade deficit of more than 8 trillion dollars with the rest of the globe since 1975. That 8 trillion dollars could have gone to support U.S. businesses and pay the wages of U.S. workers. Federal, state and local taxes would have been paid on that 8 trillion dollars if it had stayed in the United States. This is one reason why our national debt is getting ready to cross the 16 trillion dollar mark.
#4 When NAFTA was passed in 1993, the United States had a trade surplus with Mexico of 1.6 billion dollars. In 2010, we had a trade deficit with Mexico of 61.6 billion dollars.
#5 In 2001, American consumers spent 102 billion dollars on products made in China. In 2011, American consumers spent 399 billion dollars on products made in China.
#6 The Chinese undervalue their currency by about 40 percent in order to gain a critical advantage over foreign competitors. This means that many Chinese companies are able to absolutely thrive while their competition in the United States goes out of business. The following is from a recent Fox News article....
#8 The U.S. trade deficit with China during 2011 was 295.4 billion dollars. That was the largest trade deficit that one nation has had with another nation in the history of the world.
#9 Back in 1985, our trade deficit with China was only about 6 million dollars (million with an "m") for the entire year.
#10 U.S. consumers spend about 4 dollars on goods and services from China for every one dollar that Chinese consumers spend on goods and services from the United States.
#11 The United States has actually lost an average of about 50,000 manufacturing jobs a month since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001.
#12 According to the Economic Policy Institute, America is losing about half a million jobs to China every single year.
#13 The United States has lost more than 56,000 manufacturing facilities since 2001.
#14 During 2010 alone, an average of 23 manufacturing facilities closed their doors in America every single day.
#15 Since the auto industry bailout, approximately 70 percent of all GM vehicles have been built outside the United States.
#16 As I have written about previously, 95 percent of the jobs lost during the last recession were middle class jobs.
#17 According to Professor Alan Blinder of Princeton University, 40 million more U.S. jobs could be sent offshore over the next two decades if current trends continue.
#18 The percentage of working age Americans that are employed right now is actually smaller than it was at the end of the last recession.
#19 The average duration of unemployment in the United States is nearly three times as long as it was back in the year 2000.
#20 Due in part to the globalization of the labor pool, only about 24 percent of all jobs in the United States are "good jobs" at this point.
#21 Without enough good jobs, more Americans than ever before are falling into poverty. Today, more than 100 million Americans are on welfare.
#22 In recent years the U.S. economy has embraced "free trade" and the emerging one world economy like never before. Instead of increasing the number of jobs in our economy, it has resulted in the worst stretch of job creation in the United States in modern history....
You can get a really good idea of how nightmarish the manufacturing job losses have been in the United States over the past 40 years by checking out this map right here.
And if everything posted above was not bad enough, some U.S. companies even find themselves competing with slave labor here in the United States.
Seriously.
Prison labor is absolutely destroying some businesses here in America. The following comes from a recent CNN article....
If you are spending ten times as much on labor as your competitor is, it is going to be really hard to survive.
That is why it has become so hard to find products that are made in America.
Most of our jobs these days are low paying "service jobs", cushy government jobs or jobs where people push papers around all day.
But those kinds of jobs do not create lasting wealth for a country.
Did you know that there are more tax preparers in the United States than there are police officers and firefighters combined?
Our economy is a giant mirage. We consume way more wealth than we produce, but we are able to keep the party going because we are riding the biggest debt spiral the world has ever seen.
But at some point the debt spiral is going to end and the crash is going to come.
Until then, however, those at the very top are still really enjoying themselves.
For example, one of the latest trends is for rich kids to show off pictures of themselves enjoying their enormous wealth on Instagram.
Something has gone very, very wrong with this country.
But instead of pursuing a balanced trade philosophy, our politicians were so enamored with the emerging one world economy that they threw all caution to the wind.
So we have lost tens of thousands of businesses, millions of jobs and trillions of dollars of our national wealth.
And this emerging one world economy is absolutely killing American workers. It lumps them into a global labor pool with workers in other countries where it is legal to pay slave labor wages.
Just think of it this way. Imagine that you are a giant corporation that makes "widgets". You can make them in the United States, but you would have to pay your workers about $10 an hour, provide them with a whole bunch of benefits, pay very high taxes, and comply with a dizzying array of laws, rules and regulations.
Or, you could set up shop on the other side of the world where you could pay your workers a dollar an hour. Those workers would receive no benefits and you would have to deal with very little red tape.
Which would you choose?
The "giant sucking sound" that Ross Perot once warned us about has become a reality. Big employers are competing with one another to see who can outsource jobs the fastest, and American workers are the big losers in all of this.
As I wrote about the other day, right now there are some American workers that are actually personally training their replacements from overseas how to do their jobs.
If nothing is done about this, jobs are going to continue to pour out of high wage countries such as the United States and into low wage countries on the other side of the globe, and big corporations are going to keep laughing all the way to the bank as unemployment in America gets even worse.
The following are 22 stats that show how the emerging one world economy is absolutely killing American workers....
#1 One professor has estimated that cutting the U.S. trade deficit in half would create 5 million more jobs in the United States.
#2 The United States has a trade imbalance that is more than 7 times larger than any other nation on earth has.
#3 Overall, the United States has run a trade deficit of more than 8 trillion dollars with the rest of the globe since 1975. That 8 trillion dollars could have gone to support U.S. businesses and pay the wages of U.S. workers. Federal, state and local taxes would have been paid on that 8 trillion dollars if it had stayed in the United States. This is one reason why our national debt is getting ready to cross the 16 trillion dollar mark.
#4 When NAFTA was passed in 1993, the United States had a trade surplus with Mexico of 1.6 billion dollars. In 2010, we had a trade deficit with Mexico of 61.6 billion dollars.
#5 In 2001, American consumers spent 102 billion dollars on products made in China. In 2011, American consumers spent 399 billion dollars on products made in China.
#6 The Chinese undervalue their currency by about 40 percent in order to gain a critical advantage over foreign competitors. This means that many Chinese companies are able to absolutely thrive while their competition in the United States goes out of business. The following is from a recent Fox News article....
To keep Chinese products artificially inexpensive on US store shelves, Beijing undervalues the yuan by 40 percent. It pirates US technology, subsidizes exports and imposes high tariffs on imports.#7 According to the New York Times, a Jeep Grand Cherokee that costs $27,490 in the United States costs about $85,000 in China thanks to all the tariffs.
#8 The U.S. trade deficit with China during 2011 was 295.4 billion dollars. That was the largest trade deficit that one nation has had with another nation in the history of the world.
#9 Back in 1985, our trade deficit with China was only about 6 million dollars (million with an "m") for the entire year.
#10 U.S. consumers spend about 4 dollars on goods and services from China for every one dollar that Chinese consumers spend on goods and services from the United States.
#11 The United States has actually lost an average of about 50,000 manufacturing jobs a month since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001.
#12 According to the Economic Policy Institute, America is losing about half a million jobs to China every single year.
#13 The United States has lost more than 56,000 manufacturing facilities since 2001.
#14 During 2010 alone, an average of 23 manufacturing facilities closed their doors in America every single day.
#15 Since the auto industry bailout, approximately 70 percent of all GM vehicles have been built outside the United States.
#16 As I have written about previously, 95 percent of the jobs lost during the last recession were middle class jobs.
#17 According to Professor Alan Blinder of Princeton University, 40 million more U.S. jobs could be sent offshore over the next two decades if current trends continue.
#18 The percentage of working age Americans that are employed right now is actually smaller than it was at the end of the last recession.
#19 The average duration of unemployment in the United States is nearly three times as long as it was back in the year 2000.
#20 Due in part to the globalization of the labor pool, only about 24 percent of all jobs in the United States are "good jobs" at this point.
#21 Without enough good jobs, more Americans than ever before are falling into poverty. Today, more than 100 million Americans are on welfare.
#22 In recent years the U.S. economy has embraced "free trade" and the emerging one world economy like never before. Instead of increasing the number of jobs in our economy, it has resulted in the worst stretch of job creation in the United States in modern history....
If any single number captures the state of the American economy over the last decade, it is zero. That was the net gain in jobs between 1999 and 2009—nada, nil, zip. By painful contrast, from the 1940s through the 1990s, recessions came and went, but no decade ended without at least a 20 percent increase in the number of jobs.Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words.
You can get a really good idea of how nightmarish the manufacturing job losses have been in the United States over the past 40 years by checking out this map right here.
And if everything posted above was not bad enough, some U.S. companies even find themselves competing with slave labor here in the United States.
Seriously.
Prison labor is absolutely destroying some businesses here in America. The following comes from a recent CNN article....
Unicor is a government-run enterprise that employs over 13,000 inmates -- at wages as low as 23 cents an hour -- to make goods for the Pentagon and other federal agencies.One company that tries to compete with Unicor has been forced to lay off 150 people over the years because they lose so many contracts to them....
With some exceptions, Unicor gets first dibs on federal contracts over private companies as long as its bid is comparable in price, quantity and delivery. In other words: If Unicor wants a contract, it gets it.
Wilson has been competing with Unicor for 20 years. He's an executive at American Apparel Inc., an Alabama company that makes military uniforms. (It is not affiliated with the international retailer of the same name.) He has gone head-to-head with Unicor on just about every product his company makes -- and said he has laid off 150 people over the years as a result.But this is also the kind of thing that U.S. companies are dealing with when they try to compete with big corporations that are exploiting cheap labor abroad.
"We pay employees $9 on average," Wilson said. "They get full medical insurance, 401(k) plans and paid vacation. Yet we're competing against a federal program that doesn't pay any of that."
If you are spending ten times as much on labor as your competitor is, it is going to be really hard to survive.
That is why it has become so hard to find products that are made in America.
Most of our jobs these days are low paying "service jobs", cushy government jobs or jobs where people push papers around all day.
But those kinds of jobs do not create lasting wealth for a country.
Did you know that there are more tax preparers in the United States than there are police officers and firefighters combined?
Our economy is a giant mirage. We consume way more wealth than we produce, but we are able to keep the party going because we are riding the biggest debt spiral the world has ever seen.
But at some point the debt spiral is going to end and the crash is going to come.
Until then, however, those at the very top are still really enjoying themselves.
For example, one of the latest trends is for rich kids to show off pictures of themselves enjoying their enormous wealth on Instagram.
Something has gone very, very wrong with this country.
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Criminalizing descent
The point at which descent is criminalized in a country is the point at which its government becomes criminal.
Henley-Putnam University
http://www.henley-putnam.edu/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henley-Putnam_University
A nationally recognized educational institution founded by members of the Intelligence community with a mission to: "Serve professionals in the strategic security industry, especially within the law enforcement, military and the intelligence community, by increasing their opportunities for advancement in the fields of intelligence management, counterterrorism and terrorism studies, and strategic security & protection management."
The school hosts free webinars (Lectures) examining terrorist groups, drug cartels, and various other threats to the security of the United States.
On Wednesday Aug. 15 "Henley-Putnam Examines the Occupy Wall Street Movement"
"Learn about how the movement began as a grassroots political effort in New York City and quickly became a threat to the public safety of many American cities."
A threat to public safety?
Obscure Information we gather like this is important because it reveals two things.
1) The narrative that various interest groups want us to believe.
2) Can reveal what certain people believe, how they think/ their worldview.
Over the course of many years you must gather a lot of information to form a bigger picture of what is going on around you. The men in black call this situational awareness. A clear picture, broad in scope will allow you to operate more effectively.
My concern is that those in power are framing legitimate political discourse as criminal behavior, that requires the all seeing eye of the intelligence agencies. We all saw how misrepresented Occupy was in the corporate press. We are culturally being engineered to accept a big brother society. Recently stories have been circulating the mainstream press expressing the view that not having a Facebook account is a red flag that should be viewed with suspicion.
Some employers and psychologists say staying away from social media is 'suspicious'
Are People Who Don’t Use Facebook Psychopaths?
People Without Facebook Accounts Are 'Suspicious.'
Weather it be the shutdown of the Occupy protests or the Battle in Seattle, we see a recurring pattern of corporate elites using their hired guns (government) to prevent much needed social change. Sure its not as bad on this continent as it is in china...... yet. You have to ask yourself why did the people in charge outsource the economy to china. We all know where this is going, people are catching on and getting restless.
A source informed me that discontent is rising among the Alberta tar-sands workers. Its expressed in the subversive graffiti on the bridges and by the Atlantic accented tongues of the unhappy migrant workers who find themselves living in "The Mack". Their is no love lost between the people who actually do the hard work and those who make it harder. They don't want to build a pipeline to china, they want to refine it here and create jobs for the Canadian people. I suppose the Powers that be will soon deem it necessary to keep an eye on them too. Maybe they already have it covered. It will be hard to portray hardworking oil company employees as lazy irresponsible hippies. Maybe they will just portray the dissenters as dangerous drug addicts. (Occupy Vancouver Incident)
Who are you more afraid of, a Citizen with Ideas, or the Globalists in your Government.
In the end no matter how they try to spin the story, we all know who the real threat to public safety really is.
Henley-Putnam University
http://www.henley-putnam.edu/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henley-Putnam_University
A nationally recognized educational institution founded by members of the Intelligence community with a mission to: "Serve professionals in the strategic security industry, especially within the law enforcement, military and the intelligence community, by increasing their opportunities for advancement in the fields of intelligence management, counterterrorism and terrorism studies, and strategic security & protection management."
The school hosts free webinars (Lectures) examining terrorist groups, drug cartels, and various other threats to the security of the United States.
On Wednesday Aug. 15 "Henley-Putnam Examines the Occupy Wall Street Movement"
"Learn about how the movement began as a grassroots political effort in New York City and quickly became a threat to the public safety of many American cities."
A threat to public safety?
Obscure Information we gather like this is important because it reveals two things.
1) The narrative that various interest groups want us to believe.
2) Can reveal what certain people believe, how they think/ their worldview.
Over the course of many years you must gather a lot of information to form a bigger picture of what is going on around you. The men in black call this situational awareness. A clear picture, broad in scope will allow you to operate more effectively.
My concern is that those in power are framing legitimate political discourse as criminal behavior, that requires the all seeing eye of the intelligence agencies. We all saw how misrepresented Occupy was in the corporate press. We are culturally being engineered to accept a big brother society. Recently stories have been circulating the mainstream press expressing the view that not having a Facebook account is a red flag that should be viewed with suspicion.
Some employers and psychologists say staying away from social media is 'suspicious'
Are People Who Don’t Use Facebook Psychopaths?
People Without Facebook Accounts Are 'Suspicious.'
Weather it be the shutdown of the Occupy protests or the Battle in Seattle, we see a recurring pattern of corporate elites using their hired guns (government) to prevent much needed social change. Sure its not as bad on this continent as it is in china...... yet. You have to ask yourself why did the people in charge outsource the economy to china. We all know where this is going, people are catching on and getting restless.
A source informed me that discontent is rising among the Alberta tar-sands workers. Its expressed in the subversive graffiti on the bridges and by the Atlantic accented tongues of the unhappy migrant workers who find themselves living in "The Mack". Their is no love lost between the people who actually do the hard work and those who make it harder. They don't want to build a pipeline to china, they want to refine it here and create jobs for the Canadian people. I suppose the Powers that be will soon deem it necessary to keep an eye on them too. Maybe they already have it covered. It will be hard to portray hardworking oil company employees as lazy irresponsible hippies. Maybe they will just portray the dissenters as dangerous drug addicts. (Occupy Vancouver Incident)
Who are you more afraid of, a Citizen with Ideas, or the Globalists in your Government.
In the end no matter how they try to spin the story, we all know who the real threat to public safety really is.
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